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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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4830
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David
W.
Johnston
Carol
Propper
Stephen
Pudney
Michael A.
Shields
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Is There an Income Gradient in Child Health? It Depends Whom You Ask
A large literature uses parental evaluations of child health status to provide evidence on the socioeconomic determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A), 2014, 177, 807-827.)
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I12, J13
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4829
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Luca
Flabbi
Andrea
Moro
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The Effect of Job Flexibility on Female Labor Market Outcomes: Estimates from a Search and Bargaining Model
This paper develops and estimates a search model of the labor market where jobs are characterized by wages and work-hours flexibility. Flexibility is valued by workers, and is costly to provide for ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 168 (1), 81–95)
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J30, C5
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4828
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Daniel
Baumgarten
Ingo
Geishecker
Holger
Görg
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Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 61 (1), 132-152)
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F1, F2, J3
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4827
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Adrian
Beck
Rudolf
Kerschbamer
Jianying
Qiu
Matthias
Sutter
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Guilt from Promise-Breaking and Trust in Markets for Expert Services: Theory and Experiment
We examine the influence of guilt and trust on the performance of credence goods markets. An expert can make a promise to a consumer first, whereupon the consumer can express her trust by paying an ...
(significantly revised version published as 'Shaping Beliefs in Experimental Markets for Expert Services: Guilt Aversion and the Impact of Promises and Money-Burning Options' in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2013, 81, 145-164)
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C72, C91, D82
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4826
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Rolf
Aaberge
Manudeep
Bhuller
Audun
Langørgen
Magne
Mogstad
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The Distributional Impact of Public Services When Needs Differ
Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services in distributional analysis, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (9-10), 549-562)
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D31, H72, I30
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4825
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Andreas
Peichl
Nico
Pestel
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Multidimensional Measurement of Richness: Theory and an Application to Germany
Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper provides similar measures for the top of the distribution using a dual cutoff method ...
(substantially revised version available as: IZA DP 5926)
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D31, D63, I0, I31
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4824
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Miles
Corak
Darren
Lauzon
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Differences in the Distribution of High School Achievement: The Role of Class Size and Time-in-Term
This paper adopts the technique of DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) to decompose differences in the distribution of PISA test scores in Canada, and assesses the relative contribution of differences ...
(abridged version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28 (2), 189-198)
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I22
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4822
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Iris
BenDavid-Hadar
Adrian
Ziderman
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A New Model for Equitable and Efficient Resource Allocation to Schools: The Israeli Case
This paper sets out a new budget allocation formula for schools, designed to achieve a more equitable distribution of educational achievement. In addition to needs-based elements, the suggested ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2011, 19 (3), 341-362)
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I22
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4821
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Filipe
Almeida-Santos
Yekaterina
Chzhen
Karen
A.
Mumford
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Employee Training and Wage Dispersion: White and Blue Collar Workers in Britain
We use household panel data to explore the wage returns associated with training incidence and intensity (duration) for British employees. We find these returns differ depending on the nature of the ...
(published in: Research In Labor Economics, 2010, 30, 35-60)
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J24, J31, J41
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4820
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Axel
Dreher
Stephan
Klasen
James
Raymond
Vreeland
Eric
Werker
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The Costs of Favoritism: Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2013, 62 (1), 157-191)
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O19, O11, F35
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4819
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Miles
Corak
Patrizio
Piraino
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers
We find that about 40% of a cohort of young Canadian men has been employed with an employer for whom their father also worked; and six to nine percent have the same employer in adulthood. The ...
(slightly revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (1), 37-68)
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J62, J64
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4817
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Andrea
Guerzoni
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Growth, History, or Institutions? What Explains State Fragility in Sub-Saharan Africa
We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic, demographic, geographic and istitutional regressors, we find that institutions, and in ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Peace Research, 2012, 49 (6), 769-783)
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O43, H11, N17
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4816
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Xiaodong
Gong
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The Added Worker Effect and the Discouraged Worker Effect for Married Women in Australia
This paper investigates both the added worker effect (the labour supply responses of women to their partners' job losses) and the discouraged worker effect (workers withdrawing from the labour market ...
(published as 'The Added Worker Effect for Married Women in Australia' in: Economic Record, 2011, 87 (278), 414-426)
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C23, J20, J60
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4814
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Miles
Corak
Lori
Curtis
Shelley
Phipps
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Economic Mobility, Family Background, and the Well-Being of Children in the United States and Canada
This comparative study of the relationship between family economic background and adult outcomes in the United States and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We ...
(published in: Timothy M. Smeeding et al. (eds.), Persistence, Privilege, and Parenting: The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2011. Parts also published (Miles Corak only) as 'Chasing the Same Dream, Climbing Different Ladders'. Washington: PEW Charitable Trusts, 2010)
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J62, J13, I3
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4812
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Christian
Grund
Jan
Höcker
Stefan
Zimmermann
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Risk Taking Behavior in Tournaments: Evidence from the NBA
We empirically explore the relevance of risk taking behavior in tournaments. We make use of data from the NBA season 2007/2008 and measure risk taking by the fraction of three-point shots. Current ...
(revised version published as 'Incidence and Consequences of Risk Taking Behavior in Tournaments - Evidence from the NBA' in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (2), 1489–1501)
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M5
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4811
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Cathy Honge
Gong
Andrew
Leigh
Xin
Meng
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Intergenerational Income Mobility in Urban China
This paper estimates the intergenerational income elasticity for urban China, paying careful attention to the potential biases induced by income fluctuations and life cycle effects. Our preferred ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2012, 58 (3), 481-503 )
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D10, D31
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4810
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Orley
Ashenfelter
Kirk
Doran
Bruce
Schaller
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A Shred of Credible Evidence on the Long Run Elasticity of Labor Supply
Virtually all public policies regarding taxation and the redistribution of income rely on explicit or implicit assumptions about the long run effect of wage rates on labor supply. The available ...
(published in: Economica, 2010, 77 (308), 637-650)
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J22
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4808
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Paul
J.
Burke
Andrew
Leigh
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Do Output Contractions Trigger Democratic Change?
Does faster economic growth increase pressure for democratic change, or reduce it? Using data for 154 countries for the period 1963-2007, we examine the short-run relationship between economic growth ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (4), 124-157)
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D72, N40, O17
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4806
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Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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Anticipation, Free-Rider Problem, and Adaptation to Trade Union: Re-examining the Curious Case of Dissatisfied Union Members
This paper documents evidence that rejects the paradox of dissatisfied union members. Using eleven waves of the BHPS, it studies the past, contemporaneous, and future effects of union membership on ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64 (5), 1000-1019)
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J28, J5
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4805
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Saul
Estrin
Tomasz
Mickiewicz
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Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies: The Role of Institutions and Generational Change
The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market economies. The difference is even more marked in the countries of the former ...
(published in: Maria Minniti (ed.) 2011, The Dynamics of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Data, Oxford, pp.181-208)
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L26, O17, O57
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4804
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Sarah
Brown
Andy
Dickerson
Jolian
McHardy
Karl
Taylor
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Gambling and the Use of Credit: An Individual and Household Level Analysis
We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the use of credit, at the individual and household level using representative pooled ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2011, 44 (35), 4639-4650)
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D14, D81, L83
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4803
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Charles
Bellemare
Alexander
Sebald
Martin
Strobel
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Measuring the Willingness to Pay to Avoid Guilt: Estimation Using Equilibrium and Stated Belief Models
We estimate structural models of guilt aversion to measure the population level of willingness to pay (WTP) to avoid feeling guilt by letting down another player. We compare estimates of WTP under ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 26 (3), 437-453)
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C93, D63, D84
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4802
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Mehtabul
Azam
Aimee
Chin
Nishith
Prakash
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The Returns to English-Language Skills in India
India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has expanded due to globalization in recent decades. It is widely believed that there are ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2013, 61 (2), 335-367)
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J31, J24, O15
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4801
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Pierre
Koning
Carolyn
J.
Heinrich
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Cream-Skimming, Parking and Other Intended and Unintended Effects of Performance-Based Contracting in Social Welfare Services
In a growing number of countries, the delivery of social welfare services is contracted out to private providers, and increasingly, using performance-based contracts. Critics of performance-based ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013, 32 (3), 461-483)
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I38, H11, H53
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4800
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Joshua
Angrist
Jörn-Steffen
Pischke
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The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design Is Taking the Con out of Econometrics
This essay reviews progress in empirical economics since Leamer's (1983) critique. Leamer highlighted the benefits of sensitivity analysis, a procedure in which researchers show how their results ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2010, 24 (2), 3-30)
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C01
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4799
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Olivier
Charlot
Franck
Malherbet
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Education and the Welfare Gains from Employment Protection
This paper studies the impact of an European-like labor market regulation on the return to schooling, equilibrium unemployment and welfare. We show that firing costs and temporary employment have ...
(published as 'Education and Employment Protection' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 20, 3-23)
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I20, J20, J60
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4798
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Eva
Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau
Jos
van Ommeren
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Labour Supply and Commuting
A new paradigm for transport economists has been established: revenues of a welfare-maximising road tax should be employed to reduce the level of a distortionary income tax. An essential modelling ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 68 (1), 82-89)
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J22, R41
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4797
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Maarten
van Ham
Allan
M.
Findlay
David
Manley
Peteke
Feijten
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Social Mobility: Is There an Advantage in Being English in Scotland?
This paper seeks to unpick the complex effects of migration, country of birth, and place of residence in Scotland on individual success in the labour market. We pay specific attention to the labour ...
(published as 'Migration, Occupational Mobility, and Regional Escalators in Scotland' in: [Urban Studies Research], 2012 (2012), Article ID 827171)
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J24, J61, J62, R23
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4796
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Pierre
Koning
Dinand
Webbink
Nicholas
G.
Martin
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The Effect of Education on Smoking Behavior: New Evidence from Smoking Durations of a Sample of Twins
This paper analyses the effect of education on starting and quitting smoking, using longitudinal data of Australian twins. The endogeneity of education, censoring of smoking durations and the timing ...
(revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 48 (4), 1479-1497)
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C41, I21
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4795
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Axel
Ockenfels
Dirk
Sliwka
Peter
Werner
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Bonus Payments and Reference Point Violations
We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. We find that falling behind a naturally occurring reference point for bonus ...
(published in: Management Science, 2015, 61 (7), 1496-1513)
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D03, M52
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4793
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Christer
Gerdes
Patrik
Gränsmark
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Strategic Behavior across Gender: A Comparison of Female and Male Expert Chess Players
This paper aims to measure differences in risk behavior among expert chess players. The study employs a panel data set on international chess with 1.4 million games recorded over a period of 11 ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 766-775)
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J16, J70, J71, D03
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4791
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Anders
Frederiksen
Odile
Poulsen
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Increasing Income Inequality: Productivity, Bargaining and Skill-Upgrading
In recent decades most developed countries have experienced an increase in income inequality. In this paper, we use an equilibrium search framework to shed additional light on what is causing an ...
(published as 'Income Inequality: The Consequences of Skill-Upgrading - When Firms Have Hierarchical Organizational Structures' in Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (2), 1224-1239)
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J3, J6, M5
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4790
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Marco
Caliendo
Steffen
Künn
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Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies (ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 311-331)
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J68, C14, H43
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4789
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John
Micklewright
Sylke
V.
Schnepf
Chris
Skinner
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Non-Response Biases in Surveys of School Children: The Case of the English PISA Samples
We analyse response patterns to an important survey of school children, exploiting rich auxiliary information on respondents' and non-respondents' cognitive ability that is correlated both with ...
(revised version published as 'Non-response biases in surveys of schoolchildren: the case of the English Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) samples' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2012, 175 (4), 915-938)
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C83, I21
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4788
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Christer
Gerdes
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Does Immigration Induce 'Native Flight' from Public Schools? Evidence from a Large Scale Voucher Program
Recent studies point to a positive correlation between ethnic heterogeneity due to immigration and the propensity of opting out from public schools for private alternatives. However, immigration ...
(published in: The Annals of Regional Science, 2013, 50, 645-666)
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H7, I28, J15, J78, R5
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4787
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Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
Joachim
R.
Frick
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Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the
We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health ...
(revised version published as 'Welfare-Related Health Inequality: Does the Choice of Measure Matter?' in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 14 (3), 431-442)
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D31, I10, I12
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4786
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Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
Monika
Schnitzer
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Financial Constraints and Innovation: Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up
This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11(5), 1115-1152)
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O3, O16, F1, G3
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4785
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
Paulo
Guimaraes
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Trends in Economic Research: An International Perspective
Given the recent efforts in several countries to reorganize the research institutional setting to improve research productivity, our analysis addresses the following questions: To which extent has ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2010, 63 (4), 479-494; cited in The Economist, February 2011)
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A10, I20
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4784
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Almas
Heshmati
Subal
C.
Kumbhakar
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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth: The Case of Chinese Provinces
In the literature technical change is mostly assumed to be exogenous and specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect technical change. In ...
(published in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2011, 78 (4), 575-590)
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C33, C43, D24, O18, O47
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4783
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Matteo
Picchio
Chiara
Mussida
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Gender Wage Gap: A Semi-Parametric Approach with Sample Selection Correction
Sizeable gender differences in employment rates are observed in many countries. Sample selection into the workforce might therefore be a relevant issue when estimating gender wage gaps. This paper ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 564-578)
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C21, C41, J16, J31, J71
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4782
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Robert
Dur
Arjan
Non
Hein
Roelfsema
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Reciprocity and Incentive Pay in the Workplace
We study optimal incentive contracts for workers who are reciprocal to management attention. When neither worker's effort nor manager's attention can be contracted, a double moral-hazard problem ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31 (4), 676-686)
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D86, J41, M51, M52, M54, M55
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4781
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Ugo
Colombino
Marilena
Locatelli
Edlira
Narazani
Cathal
O'Donoghue
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Alternative Basic Income Mechanisms: An Evaluation Exercise with a Microeconometric Model
We develop and estimate a microeconometric model of household labour supply in four European countries representative of different economies and welfare policy regimes: Denmark, Italy, Portugal and ...
(published in: Basic Income Studies, 2010, 5 (1))
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C25, H24, H31, I38
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4780
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Dorly
J. H.
Deeg
Maarten
Lindeboom
France
Portrait
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The Role of Early-Life Conditions in the Cognitive Decline due to Adverse Events Later in Life
Cognitive functioning of elderly individuals may be affected by events such as the loss of a (grand)child or partner or the onset of a serious chronic condition, and by negative economic shocks such ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (548), F411-F428)
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I12, I10, J14, E32
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4779
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Arno
Tausch
Almas
Heshmati
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Learning from Latin America's Experience: Europe's Failure in the "Lisbon Process"
The current paper investigates the cross-national relevance of Latin American "dependencia theory" for five dimensions of development (democracy and human rights, environment, human development and ...
(published in: Alternatives, Turkish Journal of International Relations, 2010, 9(4), 3-90.)
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J01, O52, O54, P50
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4777
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Simonetta
Longhi
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Job Competition and the Wage Curve
The wage curve literature consistently finds a negative relationship between regional unemployment rates and regional wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2012, 46 (5), 611-620)
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J31, R23
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4775
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Petter
Lundborg
Paul
Nystedt
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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No Country for Fat Men? Obesity, Earnings, Skills, and Health among 450,000 Swedish Men
The negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes has been widely documented, yet little is known about the mechanisms through which the association arises. Using rich and unique ...
(published as 'Body Size, Skills, and Income: Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings' in: Demography, 2014, 51, 1573-1596)
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I10, J10, J70
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4774
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David
W.
Johnston
Michael
E. R.
Nicholls
Manisha
Shah
Michael A.
Shields
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Handedness, Health and Cognitive Development: Evidence from Children in the NLSY
Using data from the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and fitting family fixed-effects models of child health and cognitive development, we test if left-handed children do significantly worse ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2013, 176 (4), 841-860)
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I12, J10
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4773
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Conny
Wunsch
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Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies: The Role of Job Search Assistance
This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (3), 1030-1045)
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J64, J65, J68, D82, D86
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4772
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Jonathan
Haskel
Gavin
Wallis
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Public Support for Innovation, Intangible Investment and Productivity Growth in the UK Market Sector
Pressure on public finances has increased scrutiny of public support for innovation. We examine two particular issues. First, there have been many recent calls for the (relatively new) UK R&D subsidy ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 119 (2), 195-198)
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O47, E22
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4771
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Olaf
Hübler
Lukas
Menkhoff
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Do Women Manage Smaller Funds?
Based on a sample of 467 asset managers from four countries we robustly find that women manage smaller funds than men, despite tough competition in this industry. Interestingly, the gender gap exists ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 58 (1), 107-126)
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J16, J44, G23
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